CT 53, 268 (P313683)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 268 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313683 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | I will d[o and fin]ish [......]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | T[his bull] colossus [concerning which] the king, [my] lo[rd, wro]te me |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | they are [at h]ome. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [As to what the ki]ng, my lord, wr[ote me] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e-pa-[aš₂] | |
| 3' | [u₂-ga]-mar an-ni-[u₂] | |
| 4' | {[na₄}{d]}⸢ALAD⸣.{d}LAMA [o] | |
| 5' | [ša] LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 6' | [iš-pur]-⸢an-ni⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] sal [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ad ⸢an⸣ [x] | |
| 3' | [ina] ⸢E₂⸣ kam-mu-⸢su⸣ | |
| 4' | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN iš-pur-[an-ni] | |
| 5' | [x x x]+⸢x ni x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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